Posted by MV Merchant on Monday, May 21, 2012,
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What's on the iPod: The Birthday Massacre|Sideways What's on the Nightstand: The Weird Sisters|Eleanor Brown (halfway thru!)Save the Words Word of the Day: Macellarious (adj) Pertaining to butchersSo now that I've shaken off this funk I let myself be thrown into by HERO, I want to share the gorging and book binging I've been indulging in lately. Books I saw last year that I thought, oh hey, that sounds neat. Or, sadly, I was bespelled by the book cover, story be damned (in this rare case, it tu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Michelle Smith on Monday, April 11, 2011,
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What's on Pandora: Adiemus, Dawn Dancing| Adiemus III: Dances of Time What's on the Nightstand: JosephCampbell|Hero with a Thousand FacesSave the Words Word of the Day: Locupletative (adj) tending to enrichAmongst the many suggestions to, I finally picked up JosephCampbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. Friends, peers and colleagues suggested I do so after they had started reading the atrociously long and complicated rough draft that is The Last Scion, the first Shadows Saga book. While TLS has... Continue reading ...
Posted by Michelle Smith on Monday, February 21, 2011,
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Daily rant
Dear Margaret So many of my friends have sung your praises. One of them being my muse featured in the margin over there to the right. The Blind Assassin is one of her literary favorites. I loved your story Children of Men**. Granted, I have done a horrible thing, and, as a writer, I should be ashamed. I have not read the book. What I know of your story is from the movie with Clive Owen. But, first, in my defense: CLIVE OVEN. OVEN? OWEN. See? I get so excited about him I can't even spell his na... Continue reading ...
Posted by Michelle Smith on Wednesday, July 21, 2010,
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School ruined me.
Once prolific, my creativity dried up into a bitter jaded raisin. After the pressures of writing 500 - 1100+ papers on the monotony of such entertaining subjects like organization communication, that blank page syndrome became more of a psychosis when I sat down to write for fun. The pressure and anxiety of having to purge out some type of acceptable drivel full of buzzwords such as paradigm shift, drilling down and thinking outside the box killed all innovation or hope to mu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Michelle Smith on Monday, June 28, 2010,
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So, I'm stuck. I'm stuck and unsatisfied. Despite all efforts I'm where I was six months ago with the Gingerbread. Unhappy, forcing things unnaturally and because of that, parts of the story are implausible. To remedy this, I braved the sweltering heat and bought four books in the genre I write. I had, for a long time, eyed this one particular book. More drawn to the story of the author, I decided to pick up Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. At first, I wasn't impressed. It remi... Continue reading ...
Part of being an author is critiquing. Not just your own stuff, but your peers. Your partners in scribe, your sounding boards, the only people in the world who seem to GET you. One of the many kernels of advice given to me by published authors is to have your manuscript read by as many people as possilbe. Find people outside your demographic, who aren't your normal audience, find friends who are readers--not writers, definitely have your writer friends read it as well, and by all means, if a ... Continue reading ...
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